Moving away from traditional publishers

As I noted a few days ago, there has been increas­ing atten­tion to the idea of authors mov­ing away from tra­di­tional pub­lish­ers when it comes to e-​​books. Here’s more from the New York Times about one author doing just that:

Ever since elec­tronic books emerged as a major growth mar­ket, New York’s largest pub­lish­ing houses have wor­ried that big-​​name authors might sign deals directly with e-​​book retail­ers or other new ven­tures, bypass­ing tra­di­tional pub­lish­ers entirely.

Now, one well-​​known author is doing just that.

Stephen R. Covey, one of the most suc­cess­ful busi­ness authors of the last two decades, has moved e-​​book rights for two of his best-​​selling books from his print pub­lisher, Simon & Schuster, a divi­sion of the CBS Corporation, to a dig­i­tal pub­lisher that will sell the e-​​books to Amazon​.com for one year.

via Stephen R. Covey Grants E-​​Book Rights to Amazon — NYTimes​.com.

I pre­dict we’ll see more of this, unless tra­di­tional pub­lish­ers pro­vide more value to authors than they do now.

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